Speaker 1: It is Thursday, March second. This is Jaguars Happy Hour
Speaker 1: and now newly registered mayoral candidate running under the Pity Party,
Speaker 1: Jay Peace Shadrick. Welcome in. It's Jaguars Happy Hour from
Speaker 1: the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The NFL Scouting Combine.
Speaker 1: The testing getting underway today, Media time starting to wrap
Speaker 1: up on Radio Row. We've got a busy show ahead
Speaker 1: for the next hour here at the combine. CBS Sports
Speaker 1: Senior writer Pete Frisco coming up. We'll hear from head
Speaker 1: team position Kevin Kaplan. Yes, get his thoughts on you
Speaker 1: know what happens here in Indianapolis with the team doctors
Speaker 1: and Sirius XMNFL host Kirk Morrison joining us at about
Speaker 1: four thirty or so today J P. Shadrick with senior
Speaker 1: writer On Osier and more senior writer Pete Briscoe of
Speaker 1: CBS Sports. So, in other words, we have a future
Speaker 1: mayor and a former mayor of Jacksonville Saints still the mayor.
Speaker 1: By the way, you don't look like Basselli. That music
Speaker 1: reminded me of Joe's introduction. Is that Monday night a
Speaker 1: game you don't look Likesselli? Better shape and you know
Speaker 1: more than he does incredible. Here we are Pete Combine time,
Speaker 1: the big flagpole event of the off season, one of them.
Speaker 1: But this turned into a massive gathering and twelve hundred
Speaker 1: credentialed media for this thing. And it's really two different events.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the coaching GM part to set the
Speaker 1: tone for the off season for a lot of organizations.
Speaker 1: And then the testing started today. I mean in this
Speaker 1: place is starting to clear out because they're not worried
Speaker 1: about that part. Well, and you know, you know me, John,
Speaker 1: I've never been a big testing guy. You put the
Speaker 1: tape on, you watch the tape, you find out if
Speaker 1: a guy can play football. The interviews are good, the
Speaker 1: medicals good, all that is important, but the actual workout.
Speaker 1: We've come here for years and seen guys come here
Speaker 1: and they work out, Oh he's great, and then he
Speaker 1: get drafted and they don't play that well. And so
Speaker 1: I think you got to really evaluate him based on
Speaker 1: the tape. This thing is enormous, by the way, I
Speaker 1: think if you have a Draft Buddy leaflet, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a credential to this thing. NFL Draft siteeck dot net.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and look, it's great for the game. It's
Speaker 1: great for the kids who were doing it. But I
Speaker 1: wish I had had an opportunity when I was a
Speaker 1: young kid to be able to do something like that.
Speaker 1: But it used to be in the thinking over there,
Speaker 1: in that hotel room over there, That's where it was.
Speaker 1: I want to hear your best twenty year old Combine story.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you mine real quick. First Combine, you were
Speaker 1: with CBS already. I had just taken over for you
Speaker 1: at the Times Union. My only interview with Tom Coffin,
Speaker 1: I'm the main Jaguars beat rider, my only interview with
Speaker 1: Tom Coffin all week. I chased him down as he
Speaker 1: was going into the Catholic church over here across the
Speaker 1: street at six third or ten minutes for mass. Talked
Speaker 1: to him for ten minutes formass. He gave me grief
Speaker 1: because he said, you're putting our salary cap information into
Speaker 1: paper rosure. But that was where you got the coach.
Speaker 1: There was no podium, no, there was no car wash,
Speaker 1: there was no set stage, and I was worried all
Speaker 1: we going gonna get Tom. And I finally got him
Speaker 1: on the steps of the Catholic church at five fifty
Speaker 1: on a Saturday, and I know you were here a
Speaker 1: couple of years before that, and I were here when
Speaker 1: there was nothing and they were trying to throw you out. Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you had to interview guys in the lobby of
Speaker 1: the Crown Plaza right there, That's what it was. And
Speaker 1: they'd bring it. If you'd asked for a player, they'd
Speaker 1: bring him down. There'd be like four or five guys
Speaker 1: would talk to him. Sometimes you were the only guy
Speaker 1: talking to him. It was just so much different. My
Speaker 1: story is that first year I came was the year before, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the year they were drafted, that first draft pick, and
Speaker 1: I remember chasing Steve McNair down the road trying to
Speaker 1: get them because remember there was some talk that they
Speaker 1: might end up taking Steve McNair. There was that one,
Speaker 1: then there was I remember one of those early years,
Speaker 1: it might have been year two, two agents actually got
Speaker 1: in the fist fight in the lobby of them because
Speaker 1: he was accusing his stealing is. Yeah, I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to tell a different story about the first
Speaker 1: time you came to the coll And then I think
Speaker 1: it was ninety six when you called me and there
Speaker 1: was a mob around Keishan and they remembered the story right,
Speaker 1: And Jags had the number one pick. I mean I
Speaker 1: had the number two pick and the Jets had the
Speaker 1: number one, and Keshan went one and you asked him
Speaker 1: about playing for Coffin, he went coach Coffee Cool. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't gonna play for him though, yeah now
Speaker 1: and then and then it worked out great because the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer waste, so it worked out for them.
Speaker 1: That's Pete Prisco, John Ozer, J P. Shatick is Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour from the NFL Scouting Combine. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of positive reaction about the Jaguars run Pete here
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis this week, right Lea so trimp Balky on
Speaker 1: the podium on Tuesday and Doug Peterson making the rounds
Speaker 1: and you know what, got a quarterback. A lot of
Speaker 1: things going well, a lot of moves the last week
Speaker 1: or so to move some money around, and then the
Speaker 1: news today that they're expected to tag to have an Ingram,
Speaker 1: so m you know, well, Evan Ingram wasn't going anywhere
Speaker 1: no matter what they were trying. There's they probably still
Speaker 1: are trying to get a deal done with him. If
Speaker 1: they can't get the deal right, if they don't get
Speaker 1: the deal done with him. But if they don't get
Speaker 1: the deal done with him before they even put because
Speaker 1: they haven't officially put the tag on them yet, there's
Speaker 1: they're going to do it one way the other. He
Speaker 1: will be in Jacksonville next year no matter what. But
Speaker 1: if they get him tagged, um, then maybe what do
Speaker 1: you do with with You know, Juan Taylor personally, and
Speaker 1: I said that to them. I would not let Juan
Speaker 1: Taylor out the door. He's too valuable. This is an
Speaker 1: offensive team. You have a franchise quarterback. Make sure the
Speaker 1: offense is every bit as good as it can be.
Speaker 1: And by keeping Juwan Taylor there, I think, and Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram there, and you add Ridley to the equation. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I hear nothing but good things about
Speaker 1: his ability to work out. He's supposedly flying around in
Speaker 1: his workouts. Then all of a sudden, your offense is
Speaker 1: pretty much set. You need a big banger back, but
Speaker 1: aside from that, you're pretty much set there. Well, they
Speaker 1: were tenth in the league in offense last year and
Speaker 1: really spent the first seven or eight games trying to
Speaker 1: figure out where they were, and then they got you know,
Speaker 1: so I anticipated what you're talking about then being I
Speaker 1: think it would be a top three or four offense
Speaker 1: next year based on that, and I agree, I don't
Speaker 1: think they want to let Juan Taylor out the door.
Speaker 1: I think there will be a point, you know, as
Speaker 1: with any number, that it might get too big for him.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can necessarily say we can't about
Speaker 1: the door at any price. And that's a matter of
Speaker 1: how Drew wants to come in, and if Drew really
Speaker 1: wants to get into free agency, it's gonna be tough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it will be tough, and particularly you know, some teams
Speaker 1: look at it, there's a desperation for offensive lineman, which
Speaker 1: might drive up this price. I mean, I did the
Speaker 1: top one hundred ranking of the lineman and I think
Speaker 1: he was seventh. Amount of the players, I think I
Speaker 1: am seventh. That's how much I feel about all players. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's how much I feel about his growth this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was that good. I'd find a way
Speaker 1: to keep them, because if you don't keep them, then
Speaker 1: what are your options. You're looking for another one, or
Speaker 1: you're moving one of those guys to right tackle Walker
Speaker 1: little proof he couldn't play right tackle. At least it
Speaker 1: didn't look like he could. So I think that's a problem.
Speaker 1: So keep this offense. This is an offensive team. Don't
Speaker 1: weaken it. And if you weak, if you go in,
Speaker 1: let's just say you keep all those guys. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got three tackles. Guys go down in this league too,
Speaker 1: We've seen that before. And if you don't, one of
Speaker 1: them maybe can play left guard, and you know, probably
Speaker 1: would be waker. Little would play left Guardaniel of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you have a giant offensive line, big offensive line around
Speaker 1: that quarterback. So that's what I would do. And and
Speaker 1: I think they're smart. They realize what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: And I think they'd love to keep them and keep
Speaker 1: it intact and build it around Trevor Lawrence. But we'll
Speaker 1: see it's hard to do when you have cap problems. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a little would play guard in that scenario.
Speaker 1: And yeah, to your thought, I'm of the belief. I
Speaker 1: think you Jawarys feel this way now too. You don't
Speaker 1: have two starting tackles anymore, you have three. You have
Speaker 1: to consider your swing tackle a starter because look at
Speaker 1: the look at last season. If they only have two
Speaker 1: guys that can play tackle. Last year they don't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The question becomes, is walk a little a
Speaker 1: better left tackle than Cam Robbins in this They like
Speaker 1: the way you play down the step. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's some big moments in big games. I mean, is
Speaker 1: he a better left tackle? And if he is, then
Speaker 1: can Cam play left guard? Because you know there's always
Speaker 1: that possibility. I just don't think you take offensive line.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be tough to play Cam and left guard?
Speaker 1: With that? I mean that, yeah, But if you're paying
Speaker 1: him anyways's playing where you're gonna feel the best. You
Speaker 1: got the five best out there and whatever way they
Speaker 1: align up. That's that's what I would do. And look,
Speaker 1: one thing I will say, and we all, I'm guilty
Speaker 1: as anybody because you know JP, we lit up Trent Balky,
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Yeah we did. And I asked him.
Speaker 1: He was on with us the other day and I
Speaker 1: asked him, is any part of you? And I admitted
Speaker 1: I was one of those guys I lit him up.
Speaker 1: Is he vindicated? And he wouldn't go there a little bit?
Speaker 1: He wouldn't. He didn't, He wouldn't go there. Has is
Speaker 1: he a little bit vindicated. You're saying, right, somewhere inside
Speaker 1: he has to feel it. He's not. I can admit
Speaker 1: when when I he did some really good thing. Now,
Speaker 1: having said that, the defense still looking good. The defense
Speaker 1: still needs a lot of work, and they spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money on that defense, so it's not all fixed.
Speaker 1: But the money they spent was what I would think
Speaker 1: of as half to Spain. They had to get better
Speaker 1: somewhere as well as you could in freecy. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a report card on free agency for this franchise. Is
Speaker 1: you know, I've covered the league forever. How many free
Speaker 1: agent classes have you seen come in? And by the
Speaker 1: end of the first season there's three of them. You
Speaker 1: can't wait to get out the door. You had Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram, Zay Jones, Darius Williams arden Key. That's one
Speaker 1: of the best, most productive free agent classes. I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at the entire league's history, but there aren't many
Speaker 1: free agent classes in NFL history who have done that.
Speaker 1: With that level of consistency, It's hard to get productive
Speaker 1: free agency who fit together. Now, I think Doug gets
Speaker 1: some credit for that in creating a locker room where
Speaker 1: aybody could come in. But you're talking about core guys.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk is all of a sudden a core guy
Speaker 1: on this team. Evan feels that way. Brandon sure, if
Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about he was hurt last year,
Speaker 1: bad but still a big part of what they were.
Speaker 1: That was a phenomenal free agent class. And if you're
Speaker 1: going to criticize gms for their mistakes, you have to
Speaker 1: give him credit for that, which is why he deserves,
Speaker 1: you know, accolades for it. And I even asked him,
Speaker 1: I said the clown emoji, I go, you were well
Speaker 1: where of it? And he was, he knew all about it.
Speaker 1: I mean he was. Look, these guys aren't immune to
Speaker 1: the criticism, and so when they do have success, you're
Speaker 1: right a little bit, they should, you know, prop up
Speaker 1: their feathers. And Bragg I would never say it publicly
Speaker 1: been driving him absolutely, I would hope for his say absolutely,
Speaker 1: he smiles a little bit. Absolutely. How they fix the defense,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think you can fix the defense.
Speaker 1: So I think, and we've talked about this, go get
Speaker 1: the offense explosive and they did. Did Kansas City fix
Speaker 1: their defense last year? No, they had a bunch of
Speaker 1: kids playing and they played okay, and they were okay
Speaker 1: on defense. That's just what they need to be because oay, exactly,
Speaker 1: you don't need to be great on defense. You need
Speaker 1: to be just okay. Last year at times they were
Speaker 1: not just okay. And they still need to rush the
Speaker 1: passer better, I think. And again, this is something I
Speaker 1: asked Dug about, and I think they're gonna do more
Speaker 1: of it. They won't commit it to it fully, but
Speaker 1: this is what they need to play. Trayvon Walker down,
Speaker 1: I think he could become Eric Armstead from the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, the far As Buckner um Klais Campbell. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of ability he has. And I know everybody says, well,
Speaker 1: they drafted the first overall to become a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: If he's a really good player getting ten eleven sacks
Speaker 1: from the inside, is that taint to pick at all? No,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. And I don't know if he's ever going
Speaker 1: to be a great pass rusher. And that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Think about that, you have two top ten picks rushing
Speaker 1: the passer and you still weren't good rushing the passer.
Speaker 1: That's a concern. He we talked about it yesterday. I
Speaker 1: tend to agree with you on Trayvon, and my thought
Speaker 1: is if you had picked Klais Campbell number one overall,
Speaker 1: and you were sitting here right now, you would look
Speaker 1: at that as a as a really good pick that year.
Speaker 1: So that's okay. I want to clarify something that you
Speaker 1: said because I think it's what you're saying, you can't
Speaker 1: really fix it. And I agree with you because if
Speaker 1: what you're looking for is high impact pass rush, I
Speaker 1: don't know that at twenty four you're gonna find that.
Speaker 1: And it's really hard to find a free agency and
Speaker 1: I don't know that as a team they're in a
Speaker 1: position to go all chips in on a risky free
Speaker 1: agent pass rusher. So I have a feeling that next year,
Speaker 1: ten games into the season, fans may be going, well,
Speaker 1: they didn't look at the pass rush last off season.
Speaker 1: You have to remember what's available to you as a franchise,
Speaker 1: how you build. That's why I agree with you. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: you say there may not be the Joey Boasta fix
Speaker 1: at pass rusher, so you go get stronger somewhere else
Speaker 1: and make up for what might not be as strong
Speaker 1: as you want that. And again, if you keep Juwantel
Speaker 1: and you keep Evan Ingram and you look at the offense,
Speaker 1: you might draft the back in the fifth round to
Speaker 1: help the offense. Might get another tight end at some
Speaker 1: point in the draft, and who knows, maybe there's a
Speaker 1: tight end in the first round you really like. You
Speaker 1: add him to the mix, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're really a dynamic offense. But if you don't use
Speaker 1: that first pick on a tight end, then you go
Speaker 1: into you look at your defense. You gotta have to
Speaker 1: get a corner and you have to get a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: Those are two things you have to get and at
Speaker 1: some point in this draft or some point in free agency,
Speaker 1: because they don't have the corners. Look, Herndon's a nice
Speaker 1: little play plays hard everything. But when you see him
Speaker 1: as the nickel corner, he gets exposed. He runs across
Speaker 1: the field. He can't run with guys. That's a problem.
Speaker 1: Darius Williams, we talked about it all year. Move him outside.
Speaker 1: He moved outside. He was better. But is he an
Speaker 1: elite corner. No. Tyson Campbell's a good player, and they
Speaker 1: need somebody else. They need a and this is a
Speaker 1: by the way, this is a great corner draft. There's
Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, you could probably get two and two
Speaker 1: guys that can come in and compete. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it's entirely fixable on defense, but it can get better.
Speaker 1: And that's all if you have the offense that I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have, that's all it needs to do
Speaker 1: is get better. Particularly, let's not forget guys. They play
Speaker 1: six games against the South, which is not a good division.
Speaker 1: They played four more against the NFC South. We look
Speaker 1: at it already. He's locking. I haven't yet, but Selly
Speaker 1: locked it until the last show. Did we both locked
Speaker 1: a division? Next? God? Oh yeah, But of course he's
Speaker 1: at least you know, yeah he wins. That could be
Speaker 1: that should be nine right there. Yeah, when lose one
Speaker 1: of them, because you're guaranteeing nine to win against those teams.
Speaker 1: Those teams are those teams in the South are ter.
Speaker 1: Look at the quarterbacks you're gonna be playing. Look at
Speaker 1: all the seven teams and all they are toughing in
Speaker 1: all seven teams. Right now, who are the quarterbacks you're playing?
Speaker 1: Tanny Hill? Maybe yeah, yeah, there's three young rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: And then you don't know what's going on. Colts will
Speaker 1: probably have a rookie quarterback too, And then in the
Speaker 1: in the NFC South, you have no I think he's
Speaker 1: coming back, Trash Trask or whoever they go gat. Carolina
Speaker 1: has no idea that might bring Darnold back. Atlanta has Ritter,
Speaker 1: who's in this second year, barely played last year. And
Speaker 1: then so it's a great schedule next year. And plus
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that just to say it's
Speaker 1: a one year one. This team is here for the
Speaker 1: next decade because of that quarterback period. End of story.
Speaker 1: Anything else you do is all about him. It's just
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs. They let Tyreek hil go, They use
Speaker 1: the draft picks, they supplement the defense, they bring in
Speaker 1: some one year hits on the quarterback got him there
Speaker 1: again and he wanted again. That's what Trevor Lawrence does
Speaker 1: for this team. He has to be. Yes, you have
Speaker 1: to never win. It's what they have to eventually be. Pete,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'll get you a cold one tonight. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you got it. Pete Prisco, CBS Sports senior writer with
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Speaker 1: Kirk Morrison, former Jaguars linebacker now Sirius XM NFL radio host,
Speaker 1: now joining us. It's the Jaguars head team position doctor
Speaker 1: Kevin Kaplan from Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute and Camp. Here we
Speaker 1: are at the combine again. Good to see you and
Speaker 1: thanks for the time. Many glad I got chance a moment.
Speaker 1: What number combined? Is this for you? This is fourteen
Speaker 1: assistant for four years and I've been the head guy
Speaker 1: for ten years. Really like thirty years old, young guy, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're sixteen. It's amazing, all right, So everybody says that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: ask almost everybody. The most important part of the combine
Speaker 1: experience for these players is the medical evaluation, and certainly
Speaker 1: for the teams that want to get exposed to these
Speaker 1: players and see what's really going on. That's where you
Speaker 1: and your staff come in. So take us through the process.
Speaker 1: Is there a room? Are there multiple rooms? Do the
Speaker 1: players rules? Rude? Do you get to just cherry pick guys?
Speaker 1: I mean, how does that work for the physician? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure you know this. The way this
Speaker 1: whole NFL Combine really started was medical, right, doctors are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we're bringing guys in. We don't know anything about them,
Speaker 1: you know, and so can you tell us what their
Speaker 1: medical risk is? And that's how this whole thing started,
Speaker 1: and then the running, the jumping, all that kind of
Speaker 1: followed suit. So the way it works is there are
Speaker 1: rooms of physicians. It's our room has been the same
Speaker 1: at least ever since I've been around. It's the same
Speaker 1: group of guys. So it's us, the Titans, the Jets,
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and the Bengals. So you're very familiar with
Speaker 1: the guys that are in your room. And every single
Speaker 1: player that's here, you know, the combine comes to that room,
Speaker 1: and so they'll bring them in one by one. There's
Speaker 1: a kind of a pre combined screen where they talk
Speaker 1: to the players, getting an idea of their medical history,
Speaker 1: and so they gather information from the time they were
Speaker 1: in high school playing football through I mean even before that.
Speaker 1: Guys have had injuries when they were five and six
Speaker 1: years old that are on their injury at every piece
Speaker 1: of information you can gather is there. So a lot
Speaker 1: of scans, X rays and i CT scans are done
Speaker 1: before you can get here. So they bring a player
Speaker 1: in one by one, they'll be a presentation. The player
Speaker 1: will be there on the exam table and they'll present
Speaker 1: the player to us and say, this is what you know,
Speaker 1: who the player is, these are the injuries he's had.
Speaker 1: And then they'll go through the examination and say, you
Speaker 1: know that in his shoulders stable, his knees got a
Speaker 1: little swelling to it, his incisions are healed, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera, and then we're free to get up and
Speaker 1: feel and get a you know, look, there's certain guys
Speaker 1: that we're looking at specifically, but you want to have
Speaker 1: an overall look because you know how it is through
Speaker 1: the year, they're always working the back into that roster.
Speaker 1: So they may not the Jaguars may not be interested
Speaker 1: in a player today, but that guy may come to
Speaker 1: you as a free agent, you know, three months from now.
Speaker 1: So you get a good idea of that player. So
Speaker 1: you take notes on everybody, or at least I do,
Speaker 1: and then you know, when it comes time to grading
Speaker 1: the player, have a grading scale because I want to
Speaker 1: be able to easily relay the information to Trent and
Speaker 1: to Dug and to Firg and say this guy is
Speaker 1: this level of risk, you know, and there's it's a
Speaker 1: Every team has a different scale. Vers there's one to five,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones where the healthiest guys typically are
Speaker 1: the punters and kickers that come in. It's just the
Speaker 1: way it works, and fives is a fail and it's
Speaker 1: very rare to fail someone orthopedically. Those are typically the medical,
Speaker 1: the heart stuff. So then I go back home, make
Speaker 1: sure I've reviewed all the MRIs, and then we have
Speaker 1: a medical meeting where we go through every guy that
Speaker 1: they're interested on their board as is there a medical
Speaker 1: risk there? What is the medical risk if you It's
Speaker 1: maybe tricky to answer, so I try to phrase it
Speaker 1: the right way. If you didn't have the combine and
Speaker 1: you were just kind of going off of the records
Speaker 1: that you see, if your comfort level is at ten
Speaker 1: with this process, where would it be without this? I
Speaker 1: would be almost zero? Okay, I got you. So you
Speaker 1: have to get your hand on guys, and I guessed
Speaker 1: as a follow up to that, can you imagine it
Speaker 1: without a combine if you were trying to get guy?
Speaker 1: It's impossible, right, It's essential for this reason you have to,
Speaker 1: I mean it, otherwise you're going on just assuming what
Speaker 1: the risk is. There's so many things you pick up
Speaker 1: on MRIs, whether it's pieces of cartilage missing or little
Speaker 1: meniscus terrors, or we even pick up guys every year.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have them this year, but they don't
Speaker 1: have acls. You know, they didn't know they didn't have
Speaker 1: an ACL. That's a you know, some people cope with that,
Speaker 1: you know, their knees loose, and they may cope with it,
Speaker 1: but then they need an a CL obviously to play
Speaker 1: the game. So you know, without this, we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: any that information. Yeah, where they've never had them, or
Speaker 1: it's been torns in time and they didn't note that.
Speaker 1: The guys in the past had an injury and maybe
Speaker 1: they wore a brace or strapped it up or you know,
Speaker 1: but tape on it or you know, taped it and
Speaker 1: gave themself some sort of stability, you know, but there
Speaker 1: are subset of people that can cope without an ACL,
Speaker 1: but you don't wonder how they kind of got by
Speaker 1: doing that. Maybe that's why it wasn't very good at bat.
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't have al al, maybe I was missing something.
Speaker 1: That's what it does. Doctor Kevin Kaplan with us from
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute here at the NFL Scouting Combine. So
Speaker 1: all right, so the time frame of this all happening
Speaker 1: is it over multiple days? How many days do you
Speaker 1: have left? Today is Thursday, So what's the rest of
Speaker 1: your schedule? So it's four days or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 1: And they break it up. You know, we did the
Speaker 1: defensive linemen, linebackers first day. Today we did special teams
Speaker 1: and the defensive backs. So we still got the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We have the wide receivers, running backs. So they try
Speaker 1: to break it up for us over for a day.
Speaker 1: Say it's a lot of guys coming through, and we're
Speaker 1: talking with three hundred plus guys coming through. You know,
Speaker 1: most guys get at least one or two MRIs or
Speaker 1: X rays, and so you're just I mean, next week,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in the mornings. That's all I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be doing is looking at these MRIs and finishing up
Speaker 1: the evaluations. So I'm ready for the draft. Have you ever?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to break your heart fail guys
Speaker 1: when you do that. I mean it can you know?
Speaker 1: Or or when you see a guy with an injury,
Speaker 1: where you thinking, hey, guys, probably gonna be shortly I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess emotionally, as a doctor, you got to do
Speaker 1: your job, but your heart has to go out to
Speaker 1: somebody who who you just know physically is gonna have
Speaker 1: trouble holding up. Yeah, And the guys that come in
Speaker 1: and do the presentations that they do a good job
Speaker 1: of getting us the information. But I always look at
Speaker 1: the player when when someone's getting a report like his
Speaker 1: knee is severely arthritic and it's bone on bone, You know,
Speaker 1: does that player really know what that means because he
Speaker 1: you know, does he know does he or his agent know,
Speaker 1: you know, what that what that does to him? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean these are because this is their dreams, their
Speaker 1: refer you know, to get into the NFL. But most
Speaker 1: of all you're doing is present in facts. You're not
Speaker 1: passing opinion. But it's still tough. Correct absolutely, And then
Speaker 1: there's a level of risk. Right there may be a
Speaker 1: guy that has a bad knee or an arthritic knee
Speaker 1: and he's a good player and someone's gonna take take
Speaker 1: him as on a chance you know that he may
Speaker 1: make it. Will you make it through that first contract
Speaker 1: to the second contract? You know, the Jaguars this past
Speaker 1: year use the fewest amount of players in the NFL
Speaker 1: sixty one players touched the field. That was the fewest
Speaker 1: in the regular season. So I mean credit to you
Speaker 1: and your staff, Jeff Ferguson, the VP of Player Health
Speaker 1: and Performance, the athletic training staff underneath him, collective effort, yes,
Speaker 1: to work on the Jaguars roster, but also the Jaguars
Speaker 1: players for having to do some things on their own
Speaker 1: as well. It's a it's a full team effort, not
Speaker 1: just the staff involved. That's a big piece of it.
Speaker 1: But the players have to buy into that as well.
Speaker 1: I mean it starts with them. They're taking care of
Speaker 1: their bodies. They know what they need to do. And
Speaker 1: these guys, this team is you know, you guys know,
Speaker 1: they're just different. They want to be there, they want
Speaker 1: to get better. And then you have Jeff, you have
Speaker 1: Ferd that's just does a great job and making sure
Speaker 1: the players are taking care of and are treated appropriately.
Speaker 1: What you know, injuries are going to happen, right and
Speaker 1: not every injury is is going to be cut and dry.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a kind of a gray zone. Can
Speaker 1: you play with this and what can we do to
Speaker 1: get you as good as possible without putting you at risk.
Speaker 1: And then there's a coach, right and the coach has
Speaker 1: to do a great job and making sure that throughout
Speaker 1: the season you're not practicing like you were in July,
Speaker 1: come December and January and hopefully you know farther. And
Speaker 1: I think Doug is very Maybe it's because he was
Speaker 1: a player and he knows the grind. He really took
Speaker 1: care of the players and that makes our job easier
Speaker 1: because they're not coming in with their you know, no
Speaker 1: legs and tired and cramping, and cramping leads to injury,
Speaker 1: and so you're you hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a group effort in terms of keeping
Speaker 1: guys healthy on the field. Emphasize that last part for me,
Speaker 1: if you will, because I've heard from a lot of
Speaker 1: people over the years. Certain coaches will run their guys
Speaker 1: and as much as they want to be a players coach,
Speaker 1: they just are going to run their guys out there.
Speaker 1: But the importance of the head coach understanding that these
Speaker 1: guys have to be rested at the proper times. I've
Speaker 1: heard from different medical people over the years that that
Speaker 1: can be everything to keep in a team healthy. I
Speaker 1: think it's the most important pact. But because the problem
Speaker 1: is is you know, as me as a physician or
Speaker 1: as athletic trainers, and we have a job and we're
Speaker 1: not there to say, coach this way or run this
Speaker 1: a certain way. So part of that I think the
Speaker 1: coach has to know and understand, and I think Doug
Speaker 1: just gets you know, he really does. And that's it's
Speaker 1: It's makes our lives a lot easier, you know, hydrating
Speaker 1: and eating right. But if you go into a game
Speaker 1: on Sunday and then you run so hard, and you know,
Speaker 1: come Monday and Wednesday and Thursday, then you're going to
Speaker 1: the next week and it's just a cumulative wear on
Speaker 1: the body. And that's a seasons A full grind, certainly
Speaker 1: is it's well a full grind really eleven months of
Speaker 1: the year in the NFL. It kind of continues now.
Speaker 1: Players are all off, they'll be back the offseason programs
Speaker 1: right around the corner, and we're here at the Combine,
Speaker 1: the big flagpole event of the year. And we appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. I know you're busy these days and nights
Speaker 1: and early mornings, and we'll do it again soon. Cap
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it guys. Thanks Doctor Kevin Kamplin
Speaker 1: with us from Jacksonville Orthopedic Institute from Indianapolis. Coming up
Speaker 1: shortly in just a moment. In fact, it's Kirk Morrison
Speaker 1: of Sirius XM NFL Radio. Is Jaguars Happy Hour on
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Digital Network. When Jaguars news breaks, you will
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Speaker 1: of the Checks in Bille Jaguars Welcome back if Jaguars
Speaker 1: Happy Hour from the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis at
Speaker 1: the NFL Scouting Combine. Japen, Shadrick, John Osan were on
Speaker 1: ten ten am Jaguars dot Com. I'm Jaguars Twitter, Facebook
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Speaker 1: next guest, a host on Sirius XM NFL Radio, former
Speaker 1: NFL linebacker Kirk Morris and joining us now former Jaguars. Well,
Speaker 1: Kirk is great to see you, man, what's up? I'm
Speaker 1: doing great man, grab to join you guys. What a
Speaker 1: great week this has been so far and now to
Speaker 1: finally getting the guys out there competing on the field.
Speaker 1: This is honestly what we came here for, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean well it's actually two different events at pis, right,
Speaker 1: the coaches and gms early in the week, correct, and
Speaker 1: then you know, if you're the Jaguars, at least covering
Speaker 1: the Jaguars picking twenty fourth. I mean yeah, it's hard
Speaker 1: to kind of pinpoint some things in that stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, You're right, JP. It's it's a lot because
Speaker 1: everyone kind of gets the state of the Union address
Speaker 1: for each franchise, you know, general manager, head coach. They
Speaker 1: come out and talk and you're sort of recapping last
Speaker 1: season because now we have time for everyone to trying
Speaker 1: to evaluate what happened and now what do we need
Speaker 1: to look forward to, And everybody says, hey, well, this
Speaker 1: is what you guys need to improve on. You guys
Speaker 1: got to go get a receiver, you gotta go get
Speaker 1: a running back, a linebacker, defensive vent and so it's
Speaker 1: always fun to come to INDE and get the sort
Speaker 1: of the state of the union of where the team
Speaker 1: is at. They won't tell you who they're going to pick,
Speaker 1: but obviously how do you feel about certain players? On
Speaker 1: your roster as we also get ready to hit free agency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit too obviously that it's the first
Speaker 1: time most media has talked to most of these guys
Speaker 1: since they've been in the bunker and really looked back
Speaker 1: on what they really did. You know, they look at
Speaker 1: tape week to week, but they started to do a
Speaker 1: deep dive with what they need and then they come out,
Speaker 1: Kirk and they tell you nothing. Yeah. I mean the
Speaker 1: stories I write from here are always yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: pretty good lead, and then they'll say, yeah, we need
Speaker 1: to get better at X. But then they really never
Speaker 1: go into very much. But you don't expect that story
Speaker 1: of the Dog and Pony Show. If he will, Kirk not.
Speaker 1: Every player he's been with the Jaguars in the last
Speaker 1: twenty years has great memories. But I know your two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten seasons he spent with him. Tell me
Speaker 1: just the best memory you have in that season. Because
Speaker 1: there was an underrated season. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: fans have forgotten how good that team was or almost was.
Speaker 1: That team was the best team that I've actually played
Speaker 1: on the National Football League. I played eight years in
Speaker 1: the league, and that twenty ten team was was one.
Speaker 1: I still have lifelong friendships for playing one year in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and I was so upset. I wanted to play a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot longer because not only did I even being
Speaker 1: able to embrace the Jacksonville community, the people, the fan base.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. And David Garrard was an exceptional quarterback.
Speaker 1: He played outstanding that year. Uh, Josh Scobee sco Scobie Bryant,
Speaker 1: you know, because he was just automatic that year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he kicks Homedy in a row. He was outstanding.
Speaker 1: But Maurice Jones drew a guy who you know, we
Speaker 1: grew up in the same area in northern California. Yeah, kid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so to be able to be on a team
Speaker 1: with him, and to think that Marcedes Lewis in the
Speaker 1: career that he had a career still playing, He had
Speaker 1: a career year, you know, a career year Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: year for him in twenty ten. And the coaches, obviously
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio, but you see some of the other
Speaker 1: coaches and what they've been able to do that were
Speaker 1: on that staff. Corey Unland has been an outstanding coach.
Speaker 1: You look at some of the offensive mine, Todd Monkin
Speaker 1: who was now the offensive coordinator in Baltimore, and he
Speaker 1: was the receiver's coacher, and so you had all of
Speaker 1: these I mean, head coach of Michigan State, right was
Speaker 1: Del Tucker. That was our decourt. So I had all
Speaker 1: of these offensive minds and people who are around us,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, wow, this is unbelievable. But it was
Speaker 1: such a good season. I wish we could have finished
Speaker 1: it off. We went eight and eight. We had an
Speaker 1: opportunity but still paid Manning was paid Manning, and we
Speaker 1: had a game that allowed us, if we beat you know,
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts in a week I believe it was
Speaker 1: thirteen at the time, we win the division. And we
Speaker 1: lose that matchup, and we didn't finish the job down
Speaker 1: the stretch and so we lost. But man, you mentioned
Speaker 1: it one of the great seasons that I know I've
Speaker 1: had a chance to play in my career. And two
Speaker 1: of the most unreal memories that year job that was
Speaker 1: the Scobie year, the fifty eight yard against Andy, and
Speaker 1: it was the Hail Mary so Mary during years yeah
Speaker 1: against the Texans David Gerrard to Mike Thomas to hell Mary.
Speaker 1: Um just unbelievable memory. And I remember also too, I
Speaker 1: had one memory was that, you know, I was traded
Speaker 1: from the Oakland Raiders at the time, and then you know,
Speaker 1: we were down I think at halftime couple scores, and
Speaker 1: we come back in the second half and David Garrard
Speaker 1: throws a deep bomb and I believe it was Hagen
Speaker 1: or so whoever it was, catches it and we went
Speaker 1: on to route the Raiders in a game that was
Speaker 1: so close, but it was so fun. Kirk Morrison with
Speaker 1: a serious XMFL radio Channel eighty eight. They've got a
Speaker 1: big set here at the Indiana Convention Center, all right,
Speaker 1: So the Jaguars organization the last five years, let's just
Speaker 1: start there. You can go back a little further than that.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of ups and downs. Right Division
Speaker 1: title in twenty seventeen. Doug Brone's a head coach. Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles is a quarterback at all time defense in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: that it disintegrates starting in twenty eighteen. It hits rock
Speaker 1: bottom with the Urban Meyer regime and everything that happened there.
Speaker 1: It's quickly starting to ramp back up, obviously with Peterson
Speaker 1: and Lawrence and the free agent editions last year. It's
Speaker 1: kind of common ways, but this one feels a little
Speaker 1: more sustainable, doesn't it. Yeah, sustainable. I mean the errodefinitely
Speaker 1: is pointing up and I think what happens what happened
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two was a year ahead. I think
Speaker 1: this football team is a year ahead and where they
Speaker 1: expected it to be. This was a football team at
Speaker 1: one point, I believe was it one in six right
Speaker 1: twenty six, right after the game in London and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you scratch your head a little bit and say, oh,
Speaker 1: same old Jaguars. And then something clicked, and I think
Speaker 1: it was because the belief that Doug Peterson has brought.
Speaker 1: I think there was from people who I've talked to
Speaker 1: also within the organization that Trevor Lawrence something happened, Like
Speaker 1: they like he took over this football team and said, look,
Speaker 1: it's going to be on me how we finish and
Speaker 1: how we have a successful season. And everybody bought in.
Speaker 1: The talent has always been here, but it was putting
Speaker 1: everything together and also having that belief, Like having that
Speaker 1: belief is how you win games against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars this year having belief in games down
Speaker 1: the stretch that hey, we are a good football team
Speaker 1: and we can do the things that we expect to.
Speaker 1: We can be down twenty seven points in a wild
Speaker 1: card game and find a way to come back. That's
Speaker 1: what I saw from this football team this year. But
Speaker 1: it really started with the quarterback. Everything that you mentioned
Speaker 1: just about the last five years, I think it changes
Speaker 1: because you have the guy who you believe in and
Speaker 1: the guy pulling you know, that's taking the snaps from center,
Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence. He's been outstanding this year and you
Speaker 1: just think that how he brings the most gets the
Speaker 1: best out of everybody on this round. He got the
Speaker 1: best out of Evan Ingram, right, Christian Kirk. People questioned
Speaker 1: the offseason acquisition in terms of the money that will
Speaker 1: spent on Christian Kirk, but you talk about production, he
Speaker 1: gave your production. And then the offensive line too, right,
Speaker 1: think about that just how they came along this season.
Speaker 1: So to me, this is a team that's a year
Speaker 1: ahead and they can only imagine what they will do
Speaker 1: this offseason to create more competition in some safe because
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's not a long winning answer, but it's
Speaker 1: it's fun to look at them now because they don't
Speaker 1: go into an off season of need. You're like were
Speaker 1: last year, Like it's like, Okay, they need a receiver,
Speaker 1: they need a playmaking tight end, they need a couple
Speaker 1: of linebackers to come in and tackle, they need keep going.
Speaker 1: There's a long list of need and you got a
Speaker 1: lot of those needs answered. You went out and grab
Speaker 1: some corners. You got Foyer, and you know the linebackers
Speaker 1: who came and played. You got some guys off the
Speaker 1: edge that are now creating a little bit of havoc.
Speaker 1: You already had Josh, but now you got some people
Speaker 1: around him to help him out. You got an offensive
Speaker 1: line that play outstanding. And oh, by the way, whoever
Speaker 1: you put in the backfield didn't matter if you got
Speaker 1: a guy off the streets who just got released or
Speaker 1: you got a guy in a trade. Everybody knew their
Speaker 1: role and they played their role. And that's why I
Speaker 1: think that the team now was more about adding the
Speaker 1: depth rather than adding a need. You follow the league
Speaker 1: from a broader perspective way to so. Doug Peterson talked
Speaker 1: a lot this year about not only the difference that
Speaker 1: he expect to see in Trevor in the second year
Speaker 1: of his scheme. Yes, but in that entire team, you
Speaker 1: think about so many new guys last year kerk Ingram
Speaker 1: on defense Luke, I mean, I would say the entire
Speaker 1: team was new, but the cores very much came together
Speaker 1: last year and your experience as a player and then
Speaker 1: following it, how much better does a team usually get
Speaker 1: in that second year and everything because they'll be in
Speaker 1: their second year the defensive scheme, offensive scheme, and these
Speaker 1: core players playing in it. It strikes me that that's
Speaker 1: where the jomp comes from. I've always compared it to
Speaker 1: that freshman year of high school where you get to
Speaker 1: school and you're looking around your wide eyed. You can't
Speaker 1: find your locker, I don't know where I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: at for lunch. Ye, I'm trying to find the classes everything.
Speaker 1: And then after that freshman year, you get till the
Speaker 1: sophomore year, and then you're now you're an upper classman
Speaker 1: and you know what's expected of you. You know where
Speaker 1: my locker is, I know where I like to eat lunch,
Speaker 1: and I know everything about the school because I've been
Speaker 1: around it. It's the same thing in the National Football
Speaker 1: League that freshman year is one of those years John,
Speaker 1: in which you're like that rookie year. It's every or
Speaker 1: that first year together. It's learning, it's understanding what's the expectation.
Speaker 1: It was difficult for me in my career, very difficult
Speaker 1: because I played for six head coaches in eight years.
Speaker 1: Six wow. So every year for me, the plosophy or
Speaker 1: the culture had to change, and you're learning, Hey, what's
Speaker 1: the new expectation of a new head coach. So when
Speaker 1: you have the same head coach for multiple years, and
Speaker 1: I didn't have that happen honestly until my last part
Speaker 1: of my career when I got to Buffalo. But I
Speaker 1: knew what the expectation was. I knew that what the
Speaker 1: coach wanted for me, The team knew what the coach wanted,
Speaker 1: and there was no surprises. You knew how practice was
Speaker 1: going to be ran, you knew where, how the extra
Speaker 1: time that you can put in to be a better player,
Speaker 1: all of that. And so now when Trevor Lawrence comes
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, he's got the built in
Speaker 1: audibles that he maybe didn't have in year one, or
Speaker 1: on defense, you have the audibles and the things that
Speaker 1: a great play call from coach, but you know what
Speaker 1: not none of let's check it. Let's check to a
Speaker 1: different coverage that gets us in a better situation to
Speaker 1: get us to the next down. That's what year two
Speaker 1: in the system, not just offensively but also defensively helps
Speaker 1: you out. Now with this Jaguar's team, Kirk Morrison with
Speaker 1: a serious XM and Fell Radio final thought with you
Speaker 1: here and thanks again for the time. You know the Bills,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Yes, Jaguars are kind of in that mix obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a bunch of teams now in the
Speaker 1: AFC that have top tier quarterbacks, They've got pass rushers.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is as competitive as I can remember
Speaker 1: the conference being since I've been in. This will be
Speaker 1: season twelve. I'm sure there have been other competitive times.
Speaker 1: There's other great quarterbacks, but compared to what the NFC
Speaker 1: has to offer right now, right, AFC is tough. But
Speaker 1: the Jags are right there in the mix. Obviously, they
Speaker 1: went toe to toe with the Chiefs in the divisional round.
Speaker 1: They got a taste of it, right. So every year
Speaker 1: we always thought the cliche, you win your division, you
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. Well, the Jaguars did that last
Speaker 1: year they won their division, but they got a chance
Speaker 1: to see the next step that needs to be taken
Speaker 1: out to be a true contender in the AFC. They
Speaker 1: got a chance to go to Kansas City and to
Speaker 1: be all honor. They played a hell of a football game.
Speaker 1: There was moments where they could have actually changed the
Speaker 1: tide of that game, and we wouldn't don't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a surprise I had they won because they
Speaker 1: had that mindset of where underdogs all that. They won't
Speaker 1: be underdogs anymore. I think because of the way they
Speaker 1: played this year, they're gonna be a much different team
Speaker 1: that people will be looked at. But in two years
Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence, he is the best quarterback in the
Speaker 1: AFC South right now. Right now, he starts at the top.
Speaker 1: This division seems to be the Jaguars Division by quarterback already.
Speaker 1: He is that when you put the matchup of against
Speaker 1: the Texans or the Colts or the Titans right now,
Speaker 1: he's the best quarterback. That's the box that you already have.
Speaker 1: So if you have that piece for you already, that's
Speaker 1: what makes you excited about getting back to the tournament
Speaker 1: next year. And then you know what's expected because you
Speaker 1: mentioned those other quarterbacks, those other teams that have been
Speaker 1: in that contention for the last three or four years.
Speaker 1: But the only thing is what the NFL presents is
Speaker 1: that one of those teams have to f all because
Speaker 1: there's always a team on the rise. Cincinnati has been
Speaker 1: that team the last couple of years that had kind
Speaker 1: of rolls and they've dropped Buffalo, who's been there the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. It's it's been a fun, fun
Speaker 1: couple of the last four or five years, this new
Speaker 1: era of quarterbacks. Right, you mentioned Tom Brady leaving out
Speaker 1: of the league and all of a sudden, this influx
Speaker 1: of youth of good quarterbacks. I mean, I just was
Speaker 1: watching the looking at the AFC Pro Bowl quarterbacks, right,
Speaker 1: I was in Vegas to uh, you know, doing some
Speaker 1: interviews down there in the Pro Bowl and talk to
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and to see and Trevor Lawrence, Josh Allen, right,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, justin Herbert and think about how
Speaker 1: far too has been pushed down, right, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is this is the same conference that has Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and yet he's not even in the top ten in
Speaker 1: the in the conference, but Russell Wilson's not even the
Speaker 1: top ten I think in quarterbacks in the conference. That's
Speaker 1: how good it is. But I think that's where the
Speaker 1: Jaguars have put themselves in a position because of the
Speaker 1: added pieces and weapons for their quarterback. Kirk, great stuff,
Speaker 1: Thanks again for the time. Glad to see you're doing well,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you down the line. J P. John
Speaker 1: At anytime, fellas anytime, Kirk Morrison, sirius XM NFL Radio.
Speaker 1: Plenty to come. We'll wrap it up from Endy after this,
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Speaker 1: show today Pete Prisco with US doctor Kevin Kaplin joining
Speaker 1: us earlier. Kirk Morrison from Sirius XIM. Good to hear
Speaker 1: from Kirk, former Jaguar for one season at least twenty ten.
Speaker 1: You made the point a pretty good season until it
Speaker 1: wasn't the best season. They had some good moments here,
Speaker 1: but good to see him doing well and doing big
Speaker 1: things on sirius XM ESPN College football as well. He's
Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah, and he was by far
Speaker 1: the tallest of our three guest today. Kirk more easy,
Speaker 1: It's easily. Yes. Yeah. I missed covering Kirk by a year.
Speaker 1: And I actually I was still in indian twenty ten
Speaker 1: when he was had his loan Jaguars season and I
Speaker 1: was doing some work for multiple publications the time. Actually
Speaker 1: spoke to him on the phone that you're about the
Speaker 1: Jaguars season, and the story at mid season was what
Speaker 1: a surprising, unbelievable successful season and had they closed that
Speaker 1: season out by beating the Colts up in Indianapolis, which
Speaker 1: they had a chance to do. It would be remembered
Speaker 1: up there with some of the fondest seasons because of
Speaker 1: that Scobie game, the fifty nine yard field goal. People
Speaker 1: remember the Hail Mary game. They went over to Dallas
Speaker 1: and blew them out one week I think so, I
Speaker 1: mean there were some It's like so many teams. Teams
Speaker 1: have seasons that are sort of forgotten a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think that twenty ten season, not having covered it,
Speaker 1: but having talked to people about it, it's one of
Speaker 1: those seasons that some people remember fondly, and it was
Speaker 1: good to talk to Kirk about that. All right, let's
Speaker 1: rehash some of the I guess news of the day
Speaker 1: reports today that the Jags are expected to use the
Speaker 1: franchise tag on Evan Ingram. That would be just over
Speaker 1: eleven million dollars, and as you mentioned and we mentioned
Speaker 1: with Pete, I mean, it feels like that's always kind
Speaker 1: of bit then the picture, if needed, that might just
Speaker 1: buy them a little more time to get a long
Speaker 1: term deal done. I think July fifteenth would be the
Speaker 1: deadline if they were to tag him. They haven't officially
Speaker 1: tagged him yet they were expected to according to reports.
Speaker 1: We'll see, but this just feels like just extending it
Speaker 1: out in time to make a deal for Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: as Trent Bulky said, they want him. Evan Ingram centered
Speaker 1: on interviews in the last couple of weeks he wants
Speaker 1: to be here. He wouldn't mind the franchise tag, he
Speaker 1: said that himself and one of those just because he
Speaker 1: would see it as an extension to make a long
Speaker 1: term deal. So this one feels like it's just elementary.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. Yeah, if there's been a theme
Speaker 1: of the all seasons so far, We've talked about it,
Speaker 1: even some of the guests for the Jaguars has been
Speaker 1: you know, outside of the Roy Robertson Harrison extension, everything
Speaker 1: feels more clerical, if you will. And when I say clerical,
Speaker 1: I mean the restructurings. They're moving money around the cap,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really affect what the players are making
Speaker 1: and it doesn't affect the team. It's keeping it together.
Speaker 1: So it hasn't been a very newsworthy offseason yet, unless
Speaker 1: you like following accounting in the NFL. So and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying as a negative because that's what they wanted.
Speaker 1: They wanted to keep their guys, they wanted to clear books.
Speaker 1: So I think Evan Ingram very much fits into that.
Speaker 1: Everybody you talk to from Evan after the season, when
Speaker 1: Trent Balky talked about it at a couple of ponies,
Speaker 1: and people you talked to on the side, there's never
Speaker 1: been much of a doubt that one way or the
Speaker 1: other they were going to keep Evan Ingram. The doubt
Speaker 1: has been more over Juwan Taylor out of those two.
Speaker 1: And I believe based on just feel from talking to Trent,
Speaker 1: that at some point they'll get a long term deal
Speaker 1: done with Evan Ingram, because, as I've written many times,
Speaker 1: and you read it too often for your sake, when
Speaker 1: sides want to get something done in this league, and
Speaker 1: when both sides genuinely want something to happen, it usually
Speaker 1: gets done. And talking to Evan's it certainly feels like
Speaker 1: he wants to be here long term. It would behoove
Speaker 1: him to be here long term and the franchise. My
Speaker 1: guess is once the Jaguars maybe move le further down
Speaker 1: the road and figure out exactly what the rest of
Speaker 1: the cap looks like, then maybe they come back and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta figure it out. Now we can we know
Speaker 1: exactly where Evan will fit time to get it done.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not that, Maybe it's just a matter of okay,
Speaker 1: now we can agree on that number. Maybe the John
Speaker 1: Taylor has something to do with that. Who knows, But
Speaker 1: sometimes you get the sense with a franchise tag. I've
Speaker 1: covered guys A four who've been on the tag, and
Speaker 1: even if they don't say it, there's a little feeling
Speaker 1: I don't like this. I don't think you'll have any
Speaker 1: sort of residual effect from Evan being on the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: I think it'll just be more logistics. At some point
Speaker 1: we'll get worked out and if it doesn't, you know,
Speaker 1: eleven million dollars. I think could be happy with that.
Speaker 1: It's about what he made last year, and it won't.
Speaker 1: It won't go into another season with him, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think so. I think at some point he'll be a
Speaker 1: long term guy. Here. The availabilities from Trent Fawkey and
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson from Tuesday available now on Jaguars dot Com.
Speaker 1: Let's rewind to those a little bit here, John, you
Speaker 1: can check them all out. Of course, there plenty of
Speaker 1: interviews throughout the week with other guests out here in
Speaker 1: Radio Row. Top standouts from each Bulky and Peterson in
Speaker 1: a rewind of Tuesday, Probably the biggest thing with Doug
Speaker 1: that struck me was his you know. It was the
Speaker 1: first thing he said on the podium, and Doug I
Speaker 1: think thinks about his messaging at times when he speaks,
Speaker 1: because he knows he's said in a tone for the team.
Speaker 1: He was very much I want this team to feel
Speaker 1: and understand the pressure of having to go out there
Speaker 1: and perform week to week. I think he knows there's
Speaker 1: going to be higher expectations on a team that won
Speaker 1: the AFC South. I don't think he has a problem
Speaker 1: with that. He was very upfront, you know. He didn't say, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna own the you know, he didn't say anything
Speaker 1: the bastic, but he certainly made clear that the understands
Speaker 1: are gonna be expectations and he doesn't mind that. And
Speaker 1: I think the way he phrased it kind of goes
Speaker 1: back to I'm you know, in the first year under him,
Speaker 1: I think it took the team until the second half
Speaker 1: of the season to understand what it took to prepare
Speaker 1: each week and to be ready and to go win games.
Speaker 1: I think that's a natural learning curve. I think it
Speaker 1: bothered him in October because they weren't winning games, but
Speaker 1: I think once he saw it in the second half
Speaker 1: the season, thought Okay, that's how it's supposed to look.
Speaker 1: But there's also an element of and if he didn't
Speaker 1: talk about this, some players did on the day after
Speaker 1: the season or on getaway Day, there's also an element
Speaker 1: of what it takes all season mentally to be a
Speaker 1: team that goes it goes and wins in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's what Doug wants, is what the team wants. In
Speaker 1: that comment, I think that was there too of I
Speaker 1: expect this team next year to approach the entire season
Speaker 1: as if we're going to go win that second round game.
Speaker 1: Plenty of guests coming up, if they haven't posted already
Speaker 1: on Jaguars dot Com or Jaguars Social media or the
Speaker 1: podcast network, and the coming days they will, including Peter King,
Speaker 1: who you caught up with today NBC Sports. Always fantastic
Speaker 1: and had a chance to listen in to some of
Speaker 1: that conversation between you two, and you're gonna love it
Speaker 1: once you hear that coming up with Charles Davis with
Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. I think that's coming up tomorrow on the
Speaker 1: podcast Network. Just to name a few. I mean Morristons,
Speaker 1: Drew caught up him, Jay and I know it was
Speaker 1: gonna leave somebody out. Yeah. Morris had some great things
Speaker 1: to say about Shad Khan, about the team as a whole.
Speaker 1: Morris really locked into the team this year. So his
Speaker 1: insight into what this team is and was doing was
Speaker 1: really interesting. And I Peter King, you know, a wealth
Speaker 1: of knowledge and perspective on the combine. And he caught
Speaker 1: up with Doug Peterson several times for his Monday Morning
Speaker 1: I get what he calls the Football Mornings in America.
Speaker 1: He caught up with him several times. So his insight
Speaker 1: into Doug and this team I found very interesting. John,
Speaker 1: well done and enjoyed the week. And we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you again, I'm sure very soon, probably on the plane tomorrow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so, or maybe when we walk out of here.
Speaker 1: That's John Ozer. Thanks to our special guests today, Pete
Speaker 1: Frisco of course, Kurt Morris, and doctor Kevin Kaplan. Thanks
Speaker 1: to our entire crew both here in Indie and back
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and this is Jaguars Happy Hour on the
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